How do you create a PodCast?

[famousartguy]

I have a client of mine that is a radio personality. He wants to start a podcast, but I really only know a little. Such as – you record a MP3. Thats about it. Does anyone know the full process of creating a RS stream and how to link it so that people can subscribe?

Thanks

[ryanhellyer]

Originally Posted by famousartguy

Does anyone know the full process of creating a RS stream and how to link it so that people can subscribe?

I don't know what an RS stream is. Or do you mean RSS feed? If so, the code for linking the feed would look something like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Podcast feed" href="http://domain.com/podcast/feed/" />

[famousartguy]

Originally Posted by ryanhellyer

I don't know what an RS stream is. Or do you mean RSS feed? If so, the code for linking the feed would look something like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Podcast feed" href="http://domain.com/podcast/feed/" />

Ooopps Yeah RSS--typo. Yeah, but I was wondering how do you make the mp3 into an rss feed.

[ryanhellyer]

Originally Posted by famousartguy

Ooopps Yeah RSS--typo. Yeah, but I was wondering how do you make the mp3 into an rss feed.

You don't make the MP3 into an RSS feed at all. What you need to do is create an article with a link to the MP3 file. Then display that article in an RSS feed.

Most people use CMS's for creating RSS feeds, but it's definitely doable. If you have a look at the source code for a few RSS feeds (like this one) you will see that it isn't too different from regular old HTML syntax.

[famousartguy]

Anyone got any links to some helpful articles for the process of MP3 to Podcast?

[duellevel]

You can use feedburner, read this

http://www.google.com/support/feedbu...75&topic=13255

[ryanhellyer]

Originally Posted by famousartguy

Anyone got any links to some helpful articles for the process of MP3 to Podcast?

No I don't sorry.

As per the link that duellevel pointed out, the easiest way to do this is to use a blog with an RSS feed. Then just blog about the MP3's. There is not much more to it than that really. WordPress is currently the most popular blogging tool around. The Feedburner route is optional as most blog tools (including WordPress) include RSS feeds by default anyway.

[BigAlReturns]

Originally Posted by famousartguy

Anyone got any links to some helpful articles for the process of MP3 to Podcast?

There is no difference. A podcast is just an MP3 given an (unnecessary IMO) fancy name! As others have said, just have an RSS feed to update people of new releases, there are hundreds of articles about how to create an RSS feed, but any problems give us a shout.